Posted
by
samzenpus
on Monday November 09, 2015 @08:13AM
from the big-brains-big-money dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Founded by Sergey Brin of Google, Anne Wojcicki of 23andme, Mark Zuckerberg and others, the Breakthrough Prize Awards honor the world's greatest scientists and their discoveries. For the third year Russian billionaire Yuri Milner handed out seven $3 million awards to scientists, researchers, and a high school student for their accomplishments.

There is one paragraph describing a prize for neutrino oscillations, where they can't even tell the difference between physicians and physicists, a second paragraph that describes a math prize with a single sentence, and two other sentences that just give a vague description of the range of prize topics. There are some five paragraphs describing the guy who started the prize, and three paragraphs describing what celebrities and business people will be there. There is no more detail from scrolling further

>... the Breakthrough Prize Awards honor the world's greatest scientists and their discoveries.... the Breakthrough Prize Awards honor the world's greatest profit-making scientists and their discoveries.

They couldn't care less about the little people, if anything the mega-rich want to be even richer and in a world with a total 0.5 billion or less population, so their ranches, stretch limos and mega yachts can grow more elbow space.
In their world-view only 3 kinds of people can fit: programmers coding 7/24 on drugs, the executive class and those who provide the execs with a gilded life (private security, servants, cooks, harlots a.k.a. personal fitness trainers and designer drug chemists). Andbody else, like peasants or elderly are either unneeded or can be replaced by robots at less cost/more profit.